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Includes such short tales as - ""Quetzalcoatl and Tezca: Birth of the Fifth Sun""; ""Who Will Be the People?""; ""Corn Mountain""; ""Who Can Teach the People?""; ""Music Is Born""; ""Quetzalcoatl Falls""; ""Tezca Shows His Power""; ""Master Log""; ""The Pepper Man""; ""Tezca's Music""; ""Tricks and Mistakes: The Thunder Spirits' New Cook""; and, ""The Buzzard Husband"".

Nick is on a mission. Deeply troubled by the loss of a young friend at the Battle of San Jacinto, he wants desperately to return to the scene of the battle - to alter history. But when he furtively opens the mysterious trunk, now in Mr Barrington's attic, he is transported instead to Gonzales, Texas, in 1835.

Southeastern Arizona is a tinderbox. Down Under Copper's plans to explore for minerals pit landowners, worried about their water supply and land values, against those hoping to profit from the mining venture. Someone snaps.

Soaring across extensive terrain, from the working world of Detroit to American suburbia and pop culture; from the European landscape of World War II to the war in Iraq, this title opens the author's personal world to the world at large. It includes poems that explore the historical, social, and scientific, relishing life's juxtapositions.

While ascending the Missouri in 1804, Lewis and Clark met trader Jean Valle, who had wintered in Cheyenne camps near the Black Hills and who recounted extensive horse-raiding upon Spanish settlements. This novel depicts such a raid through Cheyenne eyes.

Collects nine stories that are set in Sandhill County.

Defines weeds of southern Texas and northern Mexico as plants that are considered a nuisance to farmers or noxious to livestock. This book covers 189 broad-leaved herbaceous species, grasslike plants, and grasses, encompassing 144 genera and 45 families, including one species of fern, 142 species of dicots, and 46 species of monocots.

Both Willa Cather and Mary Austin moved west in their youth and spent much of their lives there. Cather lived on the Great Plains, while Austin resided in California and the Southwest. This title addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a womens tradition of the pictured West.

Presents the tales of sorcerers, fiendish witches, La Llorona, the vanishing hitchhiker, ghostly apparitions, and balls of fire that demonstrate how the magical world of witchcraft and the supernatural connects Spain to Latin America and Latin America to North America.

Texas shows its best moves in dance halls that dot its landscape. Wherever they've found fiddlers and dance floors, Texans have been tickled into motion. And for a century and a half, they've been kicking up dust in dance halls across the state. This title celebrates how these halls bring people together and foster joy.

Where has Mr Barrington gone? This title allows you to follow Hannah, Nick, and Jackie back in time to the Texas Revolution as they search for clues leading to the missing Texas history teacher. It takes children on a historic adventure as the Battle of San Jacinto unfolds before their eyes.

Meet six-year-old Pedrito, who lives on a South Texas farm with his mother, father, and sister. The year is 1941, and except for a trip to the city of San Antonio, Pedrito's life is the farm and the school he attends. This title tells his story that presents a window on the lives and culture of a Mexican family living and working in South Texas.

Its 1923. The US Bureau of Indian Affairs and its educational arm, the Indian Service, are under fire for a Christianize and civilize policy that seeks to draw Native American children from their ancestral cultures. The Indian Service seeks to still a Congressional uproar by giving the principals job to Quill Thompson, a critic of the policy.

Filled with anecdotes, folklore, and oral history that help define one of New Mexicos most fascinating pockets of enchantment. This work presents stories on life in the countryside, education, folk healing, witchcraft, superstitions, religion, politics, folk sayings, and riddles.

As the residents of McAllen, Texas, sleep soundly, a small number of agents of the US Border Patrol wait on the banks of the Rio Grande. This book describes the daily risks they face and the insights they hold as a result of their experience with the hard realities of immigration policy, the war on drugs, and the threat of terrorist infiltration.

Jane Gilmore Rushing grew up in Pyron, a Texas town no longer in existence, and from childhood she knew that she would be a writer. In seven novels produced between 1963 and 1984, she built her stories around cotton farms and early ranches. This title explores Rushings life and discusses her novels and memoir.

Amarillo, the Queen City of the Texas Panhandle, is known far beyond its immediate vicinity the high tableland called the Llano Estacado. This title explores the city and its environs, from the first people who settled in the area to Amarillos current position as the marketing and commercial hub of a broad region.

Mohammed (Ed) Aryain saw Syrians who had been to America returning home with gold watches and money to purchase land, and he vowed to do the same. Ed began a 120-mile walk to Beirut to board a steamship. This book tells of his emotional first view of the Statue of the Liberty and of his traumatic passage through Ellis Island.

Explores the author's memories of Vietnam; the satisfaction he finds in running; the beauty and grace of baseball; and the necessity of laughter, and of laughing at ourselves. This title takes you into the corners of his personal world. It is packed with sometimes painful, sometimes funny, but insightfully experiences that come from everyday life.

New findings show that the death toll from the Cambodian genocide was approximately 2.2 million about a half million higher than commonly believed. Despite regular denials from the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge, the author demonstrates not only that they were aware of the mass killings, but that they personally managed and directed them.

Frankie suspects that a serial killer may be on the loose, a man who is so good at assuming new identities that he almost resembles the shape-changers of Native American myth. When Frankie is asked to join a expedition into the Mojave desert, she jumps at the chance to get away from the mayhem, but trouble follows her, with near-fatal results.

Clothing is the most personal expression of a culture. Objects of dress and adornment reveal so much about the individuals who wore them and the cultures and times in which they lived. This guide lists information on more than 2,600 American collections. Each listing includes the location and contact information.

During the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900s, Harvey Houses were a familiar sight to train travelers in the American West. There were one hundred Harvey Houses and about a hundred thousand Harvey Girls over the years. This book includes a section on the real Harvey Girls history.

An avid baseball player, Joe Don aspires to championship both on and off the field. But when his favorite teacher is arrested and his mother loses her job for resisting sexual harassment, Joe Dons life capsizes. Complex and multilayered, tragic and humorous, this story captures the flavor of Southwestern culture in the 1950s.

A beady-eyed varmint crawls through the floor of a lonely old man's cabin. A boy spends the night in a haunted house. A girl foolishly taunts a giant owl-woman. A young mans prom date has a spooky secret. This title features ten creepy tales. Suitable for young readers, it also includes eerie illustrations.

Resulting from an arduous series of six journeys along the two-thousand-mile line that divides East from West, this title includes photographs that provide the intimate yet dispassionate observations of a person who chose to explore the meanings inherent in the great empty middle between our coasts.

To settle and remain in the American Outback, the unforgiving land of the Oklahoma Panhandle, was an achievement. Prosperity and risk were present in equal measure. Only with the creation of the Oklahoma Territory in 1890 was the area finally claimed by a government entity. This title presents the history of the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Hugh Hawkins was seven years old when his fathers job with the Rock Island Railroad forced his family to relocate to far western Kansas. This memoir paints a portrait of a middle-class family's traditions and values in the heartland of the 1930s and 1940s.

Humans have visited the Texas High Plains, and in particular the upper Brazos River region, for nearly twelve thousand years. This title surveys the Lubbock Lake Landmark's long geologic past, placing emphasis on human activity in the region and showing how early peoples adapted to shifting environmental conditions and changing animal resources.

Along the San Marcos River, in and surrounding Palmetto State Park in south central Texas, lie two square miles of relict ecosystem named the Ottine Wetlands. This title presents an examination of the invertebrates - insects, crustaceans, molluscs, and others - that depend directly or indirectly on the abundant moisture of the wetlands.